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BREAKING NEWS: Writer discovers for the millionth time that they can write whatever they want. Join us now to see if the lesson will stick.

corrodedbisexual

Once more for those in the back.

bearie

cats b like… i have triangles for ears and i like to touch things with my teeth

Distancing myself is always so enticing, and I fall for it every time.

anthracoceros

some of y'all didnt grow up as the person nobody has a crush on and it really shows

daglout

some of yall never have to deal with the constant doubt in your own ability to be loved to the point where you get second hand embarrassment at the idea of someone being in love with you and finding you attractive because you’ve been diagnosed with ugly and cringy your whole life and it really shows

ratbastard42

some of y’all have never been surrounded by friends who were considered pretty or attractive by peers from an early age and you being the only one who wasn’t profiled this way so it messed up your self-esteem so now you question every time someone says you’re anything other than ugly and it really shows

huggableseaweed

Every. Single. Goddamn day.

I'm tired of being, well, tired and having little energy. I miss being excited to do things and I'm gonna make myself be excited, I'm gonna make myself get up and do things. I'm gonna work on my sewing project that I've planned. I don't know if placebo-ing myself will work but it's better (?) than doing nothing and wallowing around. Gotta pump myself up somehow so I don't crash and burn in my last semester~

Edit: oh my god I just needed coffee

For a long time, I've actually been really upset at my memory issues. It's frustrating not remembering things because it makes me feel useless and it makes me feel like the things I don't remember aren't important when they actually are, at least to me. It's frustrating because I used to have good memory and I was lowkey proud of it. It's frustrating knowing that being depressed caused it. It's frustrating feeling like I've lost pieces of my life.

And it's super upsetting that I still find it hard to tell my friends about my problems, including the depressive episode I think I'm currently in. Being depressed just makes everything worse and harder but not like everybody doesn't already know, because we're all in the same slowly sinking boat.

time to reset the counter for "number of days it's been since my last breakdown"

I need to allow myself to do things I want or need to, otherwise it blocks me from doing things. I can't stop myself just because it's what I'm used to or I'm still worried about how it'll be perceived by others.

It's MY life and MY things. I need to take control and let myself grow and change. I don't want to be stuck anymore.

one-time-i-dreamt

huggableseaweed

oh fuck, this is actually so uplifting

It's sobering to realize that I'm just a product of religious and cultural values that I myself don't fully adhere to. I only exist because of those two things.

battlestar-royco

here have 10 pieces of writing advice that have stuck with me over the years

every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person

even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday

exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them

if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love

make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you

if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders

don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts

i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less

sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer

a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks

coldfeetonthekitchenfloor

So for over a month and a half I’ve been told in my Creative writing MA class that my writing is too poetic and abstract to work in the form of a novel and that I need to simplify my meanings and sentences. I did as I was told and lost all interest in writing if I have to write in the same style that every other novelist does. Today I received this note from a classmate and didn’t realise how much I needed to hear it. Don’t change your art just because other people don’t get it. Don’t change your style to fit in with everyone else. It’s your story not theirs.